From 5e66a56483c855080e97473d8726688a401649ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:17:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail. Fixes #1876.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7787 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 ++++
 chapter06/gzip.xml      | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index c5d0f7f8c..cdf767764 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2006-09-09</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
+          Fixes #1876.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/gzip.xml b/chapter06/gzip.xml
index 9cb4b8437..4782bcce6 100644
--- a/chapter06/gzip.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gzip.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gzip-security_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>The <command>gzexe</command> command calls <command>tail</command>
+    with options that do not conform to newer versions of the POSIX standard,
+    and therefore are not accepted by current versions of Coreutils. Fix this
+    problem by issuing the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/tail +/tail -n +/' gzexe.in</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>